Time For Another War!!!

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This graph, from the Washington Post, shows Bush’s approval ratings since February 2001. The latest polls (not that they’ve been particularly reliable but — hell — they’re always entertaining) show his ratings almost at their lowest ebb ever.

That means, according to graph, that it’s time for another war!!! When the numbers were plummeting, he went into Afghanistan and then Iraq. Whoops. getting close to 50% again, so let’s go find Saddam!

The funniest item in the graph, by the way, is the flag at May 1, 2003 which tagged “End of Hostilities.” Someone needs to tell that to the hundreds of Iraqi, Americans and others who have died or been maimed since then.

About Norman Hollyn

Norman Hollyn has been described as a “media expert,” a reference to his experience in a wide variety of media types – in both the old and new media worlds.

He is a long-time film, television and music editor (HEATHERS, THE COTTON CLUB, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, Oliver Stone’s WILD PALMS), and is Associate Professor and Head of the Editing Track at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is an author of nearly 100 articles and his book, THE FILM EDITING ROOM HANDBOOK, has been internationally translated. His new book, THE LEAN FORWARD MOMENT, comes out from Peachpit Press/Pearson in December.

He has taught worldwide, including several workshops for the Royal Film Commission in Jordan. He has taught at the Sundance Film Festival, and consults and speaks at major corporations such as Dreamworks Pictures and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has worked as an expert witness in legal cases involving the aesthetics or history of editing, and is partner in an Internet development firm. He presently editing and co-directing a documentary about architecture called OFF THE GRID and editing an international long-distance collaborative documentary called RIVERS.